... director Jack Gold and John McGrath - he portrays a part that has almost become synony- mous with his screen appearance. Mick Marlow (Wil- / liamson) has fought his ficial verdict is heart fail- way from a Liverpool- ure, but Mick senses that if Irish working ...

... was the sense of inner despair, selfdirected and self-destructive in its intensity. The Reckoning echoes the theme. As Mick Marlow. a Liverpool-Irish man on the make who has fought his way from a working class background. into the rat race of big business ...